Karl Eduard Arnd

Karl Eduard Arnd was a German historian and author who was a native of Wągrowiec.
Arnd studied at the Universities of Breslau and Berlin. During his career he lived and worked in Paris and Berlin. He is remembered for his numerous works on French history. In Karl Friedrich Becker's Weltgeschichte für Kinder und Kinderlehrer. A few of his other publications in regards to French history are as follows:Geschichte des Ursprungs und der Entwickelung des französischen Volks, Leipzig, 1844–46.Geschichte der französischen Revolution von 1789 bis 1799, Braunschweig, 1851. Geschichte der französischen Nationalliteratur von der Renaissance bis zur Revolution, Berlin 1856.
Earlier in his career he was the author of several works that did not involve French history, including adaptations and modifications of existing classics such as Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, of which he published with the title Die beiden Edelleute in Venedig. Other miscellaneous writings by Arnd are:Die Geschwister von Rimini, Breslau 1829. Israelitische Gedichte., Stuttgart 1829.Cäsar und Pompejus, Hamburg 1833.